Asthal House, including garden steps, gates and walls with terracotta dressings

Asthal House is a large house built in 1909, exhibiting characteristics of the Bedford Park and Aesthetic Movement. It is constructed of coursed, squared rock-faced red sandstone rubble with caramel coloured terracotta quoins and window and door dressings, and has a red tile roof with yellow brick stacks. The house is centrally planned around a hall and staircase and comprises two storeys and a basement, with three bays and a central entrance. The street front is raised on the basement and accessed by concrete steps, which are original. The entrance features double panelled doors with a fanlight, a terracotta surround with an open pediment on brackets, and a 1 over 1 pane sash window above within a keyed, rusticated frame with stiff-leaf caps. Wide, shallow, two-storey canted bays flank either side of the entrance, each with 1 + 2 + 1 windows of the same design; these bays also feature a broad band of stiff-leaf decoration below the upper windows. All windows are 1 over 1 pane sashes with the curved meeting rail characteristic of this type of development. The roof has spike finials and tall, weathered stacks to either side, along with a central octagonal belvedere surrounded by railing in a style reminiscent of Carolean houses. A full-height square-sided bay window is on the left return elevation, while the right return has two plain sashes on each floor.

The front garden is enclosed by a rubble street wall with rounded terracotta capping, square piers with ball finials (one missing), and a wrought iron gate. The rear elevation was not inspected.

The interior, remarkably unchanged, retains much of its original decorative treatment. The ground floor, which was the only part surveyed, has white and cream painted woodwork and shelves and rails intended for displaying blue-and-white Japanese porcelain. Original joinery, decorative ironmongery, Walter Crane doorplates, and fireplaces survive. The hall retains its panelling and the original marble chip composite floor. The staircase is a straight flight with carved balusters, and although it appears from the exterior to be top-lit, it is not. The belvedere on the roof, which provides access to the roof leads, offers views towards the Blorenge, now somewhat obscured by the Mill Street Industrial Estate.